ALAN Duncan has spent the last two years making the Rangers family section the best of its kind in Scotland.

But the magician and family entertainer has just seen his business disappear in a puff of smoke because he is owed thousands as a creditor of the crisis-stricken club.

The 43-year-old father-of-five from Glasgow said he has been “stiffed” for £2100 and the loss of the contract means he may go out of business.

Alan says he was assured just minutes before the club was placed in administration that the business was safe and his three months of due payments for providing entertainers such as balloon modellers, magicians and face painters would be honoured.

But his contract was cancelled in February and the only communication he has had since is a letter from the administrators confirming he is a creditor.

Alan confirmed: “It has affected my family and my business big time, because I have had to close that side of the business down and it was a good earner, which also helped me run my magic shop in the Barras.

“I’m worried I’ll lose the shop now as the Rangers money was helping fund that.”

Alan also claims his official listing among the 276 creditors owed money by the club is incorrect. He has been unsuccessfully trying to contact Duff & Phelps to remind them he is owed £2100, not the £1400 listed.

Alan added: “It was a good contract and I did a good job providing entertainers. There were never any complaints and the family section won the Best Family Section Award, which was down to people like myself.

“I read in the paper about the administration and I was really worried.

“I called them up to ask if they were going to pay me the money, and they said, ‘Of course’ and I asked them if they wanted me to work the next Saturday.

“They said they did want me and that Rangers were not going into administration.”

“After they had gone into administration, they called back and said they were cancelling the contract because I had been hassling their accounts department, although I had only phoned twice.”

Alan, who is due to get married and needed the cash for his planned honeymoon, admits he is unlikely to get much of his missing thousands back.

He is furious that Craig Whyte will be paid before him as a secured creditor.

Alan said: “He must have known exactly what was going on. It’s absolutely shocking that Whyte is first in the queue for money. He bought the place for a pound and wants to make millions from it.

“It’s ridiculous. He’s got millions himself and it’s all the little people who are going to suffer for this.”